| System Details |
DVD, Region 2 and 5, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 surround. |
| Language |
English dialogue, optional English, Hebrew, Portuguese, Swedish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Performer |
Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justine Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, Brian Markinson, James Cromwell. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Thomas Newman ; costume designer, Stuart Wurtzel ; visual effects supervisor, Richard Edlund. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast by HBO in 2003. |
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Based on the play by Tony Kushner. |
| Summary |
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions and brings his mother to New York. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Millennium approaches -- pt. 2. Perestroika. |
| Subject |
Angels -- Drama.
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AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Drama.
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Gay men -- United States -- Drama.
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| Collection |
DVD
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| Alt Author |
Nichols, Mike.
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Costas, Celia.
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Pacino, Al, 1940-
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Streep, Meryl.
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Thompson, Emma.
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Parker, Mary-Louise.
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Wright, Jeffrey.
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Kirk, Justin.
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Shenkman, Ben.
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Wilson, Patrick, 1973-
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Cromwell, James.
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Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945-
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Bloom, John, 1935-
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Newman, Thomas, 1955-
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Roth, Ann, 1931-
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Wurtzel, Stuart.
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Edlund, Richard, 1940-
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Kushner, Tony.
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HBO Films.
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Avenue Pictures.
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HBO Video (Firm)
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| Add Title |
Millenium approaches.
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Perestroika.
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| ISBN |
7321900252812 |
| Music # |
Z19/25281 HBO Video |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (ca. 337 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
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